Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.